The Northeast Women's Hockey League is an
NCAA
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges an ...
Division III women's ice hockey conference. The conference was formed in 2017 when the
ECAC West
ECAC West was a college athletic conference which operated in the northeastern United States until 2017. It participated in the NCAA's Division III as a hockey-only conference. The conference ceased to exist after the end of the 2016–17 season wh ...
collapsed and the women's
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...
programs of the five schools whose primary conference was the
State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) banded together to form the NEWHL. While SUNYAC supports men's ice hockey, only five of the ten member schools sponsor women's ice hockey.
Members
The NEWHL was formed by five schools in 2017 and was joined by two more beginning with the 2019–20 season. Because seven teams is the minimum requirement for a conference to receive an automatic bid for the NCAA Championship Tournament, the stability of the NEWHL was greatly strengthened with the additions.
Current members
Membership timeline
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bar:Buf color:women from:06/01/2017 till:end text:Buffalo State
The State University of New York Buffalo State University (colloquially referred to as Buffalo State University, SUNY Buffalo State, Buffalo State, or simply Buff State) is a public college, public university in Buffalo, New York. It is part of ...
(2017-Present)
bar:Cor color:women from:06/01/2017 till:end text:SUNY Cortland
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History
The State Un ...
(2017-Present)
bar:Osw color:women from:06/01/2017 till:end text:SUNY Oswego
State University of New York at Oswego (SUNY Oswego or Oswego State) is a public college in the City of Oswego and Town of Oswego, New York. It has two campuses: historic lakeside campus in Oswego and Metro Center in Syracuse, New York.
SUN ...
(2017-Present)
bar:Pla color:women from:06/01/2017 till:end text:SUNY Plattsburgh
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(2017-Present)
bar:Pot color:women from:06/01/2017 till:end text:SUNY Potsdam
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(2017-Present)
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References
External links
NEWHL homepage
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NCAA Division III ice hockey conferences
Organizations established in 2017
Women's ice hockey